Finalist Indie Book Awards 2019 FIRST PLACE FICTION: National Federation of Press Woman Communication Contest 2018 Sequel to Escape from Assisted Living What does it take to forgive, or move on, or rekindle romance? And do second chances offer just deserts? The Miles and D\'Angelo\'s rewritten family history offers answers.
Go to joycebhicks.com for links to her stories..
Her stories have appeared in Literary Mama, Passager, Kudzu House, Great Lakes Review, and others.
Quilting, knitting, and gardening are other pursuits.
She has appeared at story-telling events in Chicago.
She\'s an observer in public space of the serious, mundane, or hilarious interchanges of others.
How will the family react? About author(s): Joyce Hicks \' stories spring from her interest in the minutiae of family life, particularly at gateways to new stages.
When all the women meet by accident in Chicago, results of past transgressions come to light.
She\'s also sleuthing family history, but she keeps her suspicions from Sharon because a good wife and mother should not tarnish a reputation.
She\'s speed dating, making new friends, and reconnecting with an old one.
Betty\'s happy in her city life with friend Eleanor.
Time isn\'t right for revelations of the goings-on in Elkhart that have propelled Sharon\'s Desserts from the red to the black.
Sharon has her hands full--clients making moves on her husband, her mother-in-law meddling in the desserts, and a visitor sleeping over--she encourages her mother to stay away.
They have protected each other from upsetting truths their entire lives.
Will mother and daughter work through this mystery together? Of course not.
This equanimity between Betty and Sharon may be short-lived after a stranger makes an astonishing claim.
Her daughter Sharon D\'Angelo is busy with her new dessert shop in Elkhart, Indiana, funded by a legacy from her father.
The year after octogenarian Betty Miles\' exit from senior living ( Escape from Assisted Living ), she\'s staying in Chicago.
Finalist Indie Book Awards 2019 FIRST PLACE FICTION: National Federation of Press Woman Communication Contest 2018 Sequel to Escape from Assisted Living What does it take to forgive, or move on, or rekindle romance? And do second chances offer just deserts? The Miles and D\'Angelo\'s rewritten family history offers answers
